The Team

Core project group

Merle-Marie Pittelkow

Postdoctoral Researcher

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute for Clinical Nursing Science, Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Merle-Marie Pittelkow has a background in clinical psychology, methodology, and meta-research.

Jan Kottner

Professor

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute for Clinical Nursing Science, Berlin, Germany.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. cur. Jan Kottner is part of the original GRRAS team and has expertise in the selection, evaluation, development and measurement properties of standardized measurement tools and endpoints in clinical research and practice.

Lidwine B. (Wieneke) Mokkink

Assistant Professor

Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, and Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Methodology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Dr. Wieneke Mokkink is assistant professor at Amsterdam UMC, and her research focuses on developing internationally accepted guidelines to support the design and reporting of studies on measurement properties (e.g. validity, reliability), as well as the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews. In addition, she published educational papers on understanding measurement instruments and their measurement properties. As co-founder and current chair of the COSMIN community, she aims to connect researchers dedicated to improving measurement quality.

David L. Streiner

Emeritus Professor

McMaster University, Departments of Psychiatry & Neuroscience and of Health Research Methods Evidence and Impact

Prof. Dr. Streiner is the author of Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use and (co-)authored many articles on psychometrics and research methodology

Stig Brorson

Professor, consultant orthopaedic surgeon

Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics, Zealand University Hospital, Denmark Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen

Prof. Dr. Brorson has published extensively on clinical epidemiology and evidence-based practice. He has a specific interest in classification systems and their influence on clinical decision-making. He advocates for evidence-based practice, patient involvement, and the de-implementation of low-value interventions.

Mohamed Shoukri

Adjunct Professor

Biostatistics and Scientific Computing Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Shoukri’s research focuses on techniques of inference with applications in analytic epidemiology.

Collaborators

Maximilian Mönch

Doctoral Researcher

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Maximilian Mönch has a background in mathematical statistics, biometry, psychology and special needs care.